At one time we faced a perhaps similar dilemma: hardware with
proprietary software/firmware that would not support then current
security/encryption methods/protocols. The hardware could not be
replaced for two reasons: it was integrated into specific systems that
were in use; the vendor did
> > >
> > > > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
> > >
> > > Running an unmaintained, out-of-date, password based service like FTP ...
> >
> > I would presume the OP has a clue ...
>
> Why would you presume this? ...
>
bah, hambug! He uses Linux, he has a clue.
Most likely FT
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:23 PM Andrew Komornicki
wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone considered using secure ftp, sftp. It is much more secure
> and readily available. Just like SSH secure shell.
>
> regards,
> Andrew
In practical terms. SFTP has little to no advantage over FTPS, SSL
enabled FTP
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:12 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>
> >
> > > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
> >
> > Running an unmaintained, out-of-date, password based service like FTP
> > on an obsolete and unsupported operating system is begging for a lot
> > of trouble if th
Hi,
Has anyone considered using secure ftp, sftp. It is much more secure
and readily available. Just like SSH secure shell.
regards,
Andrew
On 11/4/2021 8:12 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>
>>> Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
>>
>> Running an unmaintained, out-of-d
>
> > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
>
> Running an unmaintained, out-of-date, password based service like FTP
> on an obsolete and unsupported operating system is begging for a lot
> of trouble if the machine is ever probed by a rootkit. Are you sure
> about doing this?
I
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Larry Linder wrote:
Thank You all.
I have a copy of the .iso disk on box.
Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
Archive manager works pretty nicely.
Hmm. I guess that the version on the .iso will be older than
the one in the obsolete directory.
Especially
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:38 AM Larry Linder
<0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> Thank You all.
> I have a copy of the .iso disk on box.
> Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
> Archive manager works pretty nicely.
>
> Larry Linder
Wait, what? vsftpd ser
On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:38:29AM -0400, Larry Linder wrote:
>
> > > Any one have an idea how to install ftp.
>
The ftp packages are right there on the SL download site:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ftp.scientificlinux.org_linux_scientific_obsolete_6x_x86-5F64_os_Packages_
Thank You all.
I have a copy of the .iso disk on box.
Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm
Archive manager works pretty nicely.
Larry Linder
On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 12:19 +0100, Francesco Alfano wrote:
> You can try download and install vsftpd from
>
> https://urldefense.proof
You can rewrite the yum configurations to point to the obsolete
mirror, or pull down the RPMs directly from the obsolete mirror and
use "rpm -U filename.rpm" to insall them locally.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 5:00 PM Vinícius Ferrão
<11d646aef28a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> You can
You can mount the ISO and point the repos to Packages dir.
Sent from my iPhone
> On 3 Nov 2021, at 17:52, Larry Linder
> <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> This is out of date but due to what is running on box we need to add ftp
> and yum will not work because it is
This is out of date but due to what is running on box we need to add ftp
and yum will not work because it is not supported. It is only available
in the obsolete directory. You can get the .iso's but we do not want to
reinstall the OS.
Any one have an idea how to install ftp. Or how to get the "
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 2:37 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > >
> > > If you know the magic incantation to boot old SL/RHEL images (tarballs or
> > > rsync's)
> > > in a container on RHEL 7 or 8 or on Ubuntu LTS 20.04, or if
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >
> > If you know the magic incantation to boot old SL/RHEL images (tarballs or
> > rsync's)
> > in a container on RHEL 7 or 8 or on Ubuntu LTS 20.04, or if you can point
> > me to such incantations,
> > I would greatly apprecia
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:20 AM Konstantin Olchanski
wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Is it "too hard" to provide a solution for the OP and for myself? How come
> > > RHEL/SL/CentOS-8 does not come preinstalled with a package
> > > to "boot an SL3/SL4/SL5/RHEL6/RHEL7 VM image now!". (Yes, we still have
> > >
> >
> > Is it "too hard" to provide a solution for the OP and for myself? How come
> > RHEL/SL/CentOS-8 does not come preinstalled with a package
> > to "boot an SL3/SL4/SL5/RHEL6/RHEL7 VM image now!". (Yes, we still have
> > hardware that required an m68k crosscompiler that runs on SL4. We even h
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:48 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>
> >
> > ... you have locked licenses for expensive old CAD software?
> > ... vendor has failed to keep their software up to date with operating
> > system releases ...
> > ... not Scientific Linux's fault.
> >
>
> Ah... the sound of Lin
> On 16. Oct 2020, at 21:48, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>
>>
>> ... you have locked licenses for expensive old CAD software?
>> ... vendor has failed to keep their software up to date with operating
>> system releases ...
>> ... not Scientific Linux's fault.
>>
>
> Ah... the sound of Linux wa
>
> ... you have locked licenses for expensive old CAD software?
> ... vendor has failed to keep their software up to date with operating
> system releases ...
> ... not Scientific Linux's fault.
>
Ah... the sound of Linux walking away from old-time Linux users...
To me it looks like "Linux peop
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:21 AM Larry Linder <
0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort.
>
> We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all
> of our cad tools work. There are some thi
Nico Kadel-Garcia writes:
> And oh, my, if you want to discard systemd, you'll need to go to an OS
> based on an entirely distinct kernel, say one of the BSD's.
Here are some Linux-based options sans systemd:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd
-Brett.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Larry Linder
<0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort.
>
> We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all
> of our cad tools work. There are some thing
I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort.
We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all
of our cad tools work. There are some things it doesn't have but we
have never noticed them because they are not useful in the the day to
day running of a
to run the "telinit q"
command to accomplish the roughly equivalent task. In SL 6.x, the
upstart init daemon apparently doesn't ever need a "telinit q" to reread
all the config files, as it's monitoring them for any changes (according
to the "telini
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:42:07AM -0500, Stan Orlov wrote:
>
> I am following instructions to install AtoM (Access to Memory) and one of the
> steps is to run:
> systemctl daemon-reload
> Since I am on SL 6.9, and don't have systemd, how should I do this reload?
>
If you follow el7 instruction
Greetings,
I am following instructions to install AtoM (Access to Memory) and one of the
steps is to run:
systemctl daemon-reload
Since I am on SL 6.9, and don't have systemd, how should I do this reload?
Stan
Hi,
I wanted to change my power-button one-tap configuration in SL 6 to hibernate.
I tried replacing 'shutdown -h now' with 'pm-hibernate' in
/etc/acpi/actions/powerbutton.conf but nothing happened in the sense that
pressing the power button did nothing.
Any suggestions to w
I have a colleague for whom I have installed IA-32 SL 6 . She has
recently purchased a HP M225dw "all-in-one" laser printer. However, I
cannot find a driver for this printer for SL 6. HP open systems
supported this printer starting with hplip-3.14.10, but I cannot find
this RP
.@fnal.gov; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
Subject: RE: libuser security update for SL 6
Many thanks, Pat,
It is good to know they are forthcoming.
Regards,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Riehecky [mailto:riehe...@fnal.gov]
Sent: 28 July 2015 00:44
To: Chiu, Peter (STFC
Many thanks, Pat,
It is good to know they are forthcoming.
Regards,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Riehecky [mailto:riehe...@fnal.gov]
Sent: 28 July 2015 00:44
To: Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP); scientific-linux-users
Subject: RE: libuser security update for SL 6
The libuser
users
Subject: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] libuser security update for SL 6
Hello,
I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6?
Thanks a lot.
Peter
t;>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6?
>>
>>
>> RHEL 6.7 was released a few days ago. I see that the latest libuser
>> package is an update to 6.7.
>>
>> Akemi
>>
>
news on the security update on libuser for SL 6?
RHEL 6.7 was released a few days ago. I see that the latest libuser
package is an update to 6.7.
Akemi
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:25 AM, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6?
RHEL 6.7 was released a few days ago. I see that the latest libuser
package is an update to 6.7.
Akemi
v] On Behalf Of
peter.c...@stfc.ac.uk
Sent: July-27-15 9:25 AM
To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov
Cc: peter.c...@stfc.ac.uk
Subject: libuser security update for SL 6
Hello,
I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6?
Thanks a lot.
Peter
Hello,
I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6?
Thanks a lot.
Peter
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> That'll be fun to debug later ;)
>
> I think from memory the problem with EL5 was that you had to run the
> kernel-xen package - as it wasn't included in the stock kernel. It'd
> also be easier to do a netinstall vs a CD install and supply it
lowing me to install fully virtualized CentOS and SL 6
> servers for now. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until updating the Xen server
> to switch them to para-virtualization, which I'd really prefer.
>
> Nico Kadel-Garcia
> Email: nka...@gmail.com
> Sent from
Throwing out old manually defined files from /etc/xen and starting with
virt-install is allowing me to install fully virtualized CentOS and SL 6
servers for now. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until updating the Xen server to
switch them to para-virtualization, which I'd reall
Configuation wise - it should be pretty much the same. I haven't changed
my config template for *many* years and it still works with SL6 and Xen
4.5.0.
If you followed the best practices back in the day, you used LVM as the
storage method and have an LV for each DomU that you run.
The only real t
It depends how you set up your Xen on SL5 initially..
If you installed them with virt-install and they are installed on
a whole device (/dev/xvda, etc.) then it is pretty easy to flip over
to kvm or bring forward to sl6 and beyond.
If you installed them on individual file systems, e.g. /dev/sda1,
I'm dealing with a Xen 3 server on SL 5 operating system with SL 5 para
virtualized guests on it. But I'm having a heck of a time updating guests,
getting them CD booted with console access to start the process.
Any good pointers with the Xen 3.x built into SL 5 would be welcome. I know
it's ma
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:23 AM, David Sommerseth
wrote:
> - Opprinnelig melding -
>> Fra: "C.G. van der Werf (Carel)"
>> Til: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
>> Sendt: 26. april 2014 09:44:20
>> Emne: RE: Software Collections 1.0 is available
- Opprinnelig melding -
> Fra: "C.G. van der Werf (Carel)"
> Til: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
> Sendt: 26. april 2014 09:44:20
> Emne: RE: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6
>
> Any Chance that other "relevant" packages could
On 04/26/2014 01:44 AM, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote:
> Any Chance that other "relevant" packages could be part of this software
> collection ?
It's a rebuild of RHEL's upstream collections, so it's really up to them
for this particular set of collections.
> I'm still looking for a qualified
---
From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
[mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Orion
Poplawski
Sent: 24 April, 2014 23:21
To: Connie Sieh; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
Subject: Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6 (fwd)
On 10/17/2013 0
On 10/17/2013 02:27 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:25:39 -0500
From: Connie Sieh
To: cs...@fnal.gov
Subject: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6
The following TUV "software collection" products are now available fo
I did a search of the archives of this group, keyword: Oracle.
Low and Behold, it looks like I am the
instigator of most such questions.
With the OpenSSL thing and the PCI thread, I'm thinking
that it would be really nice to be running SL 6.x instead
of 5.x these days.
But my reaso
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:25:39 -0500
From: Connie Sieh
To: cs...@fnal.gov
Subject: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6
The following TUV "software collection" products are now available for SL 6.
A README with info about yum repos
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:02:14AM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Matthieu Guionnet wrote:
>
> >thanks for this very good news !
> >
> >the repository is sl-testing ! does it mean that it'll be later on main
> >repo sl ?
> >Why you don't create a new repo like you've done for dev
cts are now available for testing for
SL 6. Use "--enablerepo=sl-testing" to enable yum to access these products.
More info on these products is available at
http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/h
in
Le mardi 24 septembre 2013 à 18:17 -0500, Connie Sieh a écrit :
> The following "software collection" products are now available for testing
> for
> SL 6. Use "--enablerepo=sl-testing" to enable yum to access these products.
> More info on these products is av
The following "software collection" products are now available for testing for
SL 6. Use "--enablerepo=sl-testing" to enable yum to access these products.
More info on these products is available at
http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/
https://ac
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